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Lieutenant Colonel
military rank (OF-4)
Percy Fawcett
British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (1867–1925)
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
Francis Younghusband
British army explorer (1863–1942)
Antonio Tejero
Spanish Lieutenant-Colonel (1932–2026)
Obersturmbannführer
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John McCrae
Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I (1872-1918)
Oliver North
American political commentator
David Stirling
World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service (1915-1990)
Sergey Ryzhikov
Russian cosmonaut and military officer
Robert Bacon
American diplomat, secretary of state, ambassador to France, etc. (1860-1919)
podpolkovnik
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John Lilburne
English political activist (1614-1657)
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly
President of Mauritania (1943-2019)
Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge
British Army general (1868-1927)
Terry Hart
American astronaut
Ronald Speirs
American paratrooper (1920-2007)
Carlos I. Noriega
Peruvian astronaut
Duane G. Carey
American Air Force lieutenant colonel and astronaut
Óscar Osorio
Salvadoran politician and military official (1910-1969)
Peter Fleming
British adventurer, journalist, soldier & travel writer (1907–1971)
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
English Baron (1886-1971)
Sophie Adenot
French astronaut, engineer and pilot
Charles Hamilton Smith
British artist and naturalist (1776-1859)
Sulim Yamadayev
Chechen warlord (1973-2009)
Arthur Whitten Brown
British Army officer (1886–1948)
Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
British soldier and Conservative politician (1871-1934)
Caesar von Hofacker
German Luftwaffe lieutenant-colonel, member of the 20 July 1944 plot
John Henry Patterson
Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter and author (1867-1947)
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
English geologist, topographer and surveyor (1834–1923)
Karl Möckel
SS officer (1901-1948)
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol
Russian Army officer (1796-1826)
Abdoulaye Maïga
Interim Prime Minister of Mali
Tobias Ellwood
British politician, soldier and author
Paddy Mayne
British Soldier (1915-1955)
Joshua Millner
sport shooter (1847-1931)
Anthony Durnford
British Army officer (1830–1879)
Matthew Nathan
British colonial administrator (1862–1939)
Hubert-Joseph Henry
French Army officer (1846-1898)
George Monro
British Army officer
Takeshi Mori
Japanese general (1894–1945)
Mark Takai
American politician
Robert G. Cole
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915–1944)
Oberstleutnant
'''''' () (English: Lieutenant Colonel) is a senior field officer rank in several German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to lieutenant colonel. It is currently used by both the ground and air forces of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and Norway. The Swedish rank is a direct translation, as is the Finnish rank .
Herbert Sobel
American commissioned officer and paratrooper (1912–1987)
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
second Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paymaster, comptroller (1740-1809)
Jas Ram Singh
Ashoka Chakra recipient
John By
British military engineer (1779-1836)
Ardeshir Tarapore
Recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1923-1965)
Eric Marshall
British Antarctic explorer (1879–1963)
Charles FitzRoy
British military officer (1796–1858)
William Roy Hodgson
Australian diplomat (1892-1958)
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet
British politician (1876-1940)
Frederick Marshman Bailey
British political officer in India and naturalist (1882-1967)
Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough
British peer (born 1952)
F. J. M. Stratton
British astronomer (1881–1960)
Philip Reed
American politician
Joachim Zachris Duncker
Swedish soldier (1774-1809)
Galiy Adilbekovich Adilbekov
Brigade Commander of the 47th Separate Tank Brigade, Commander of the 47th Separate Guards Tank Regiment
John Jacob Astor III
Union Army officer and capitalist (1822–1890)